The stars of this summer's blockbuster movies have nothing on the high-profile defendants facing trial in the criminal court system. Michael Jackson is a marquee attraction that grabs daily headlines. However, now comes the most notorious criminal defendant of them all: Saddam Hussein. The deposed Iraqi leader recently faced charges referring to crimes such as the gassing of Kurdish villagers, the killing thousands including political activists and religious figures and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait …showed first 75 words of 591 total…

…showed last 75 words of 591 total…a new order that puts the past behind it and looks forward to a better future. For this reason, perhaps it is the most appropriate conviction. What I find interesting is that Saddam Hussein is going to be tried by his countrymen when his counterpart Slobodan Milosevic was not tried by the people he treated so badly. Can we say that this will be a fair trial? Who knows? Only time and history will tell.